Congressional Republicans, working with the Bush administration, are manoeuvring to make permanent the sweeping anti-terrorism powers granted to federal law enforcement agents after the attacks of 11 September 2001
The matriarch of a herd of elephants in South Africa opened a gate with her trunk to free antelopes being held at a camp in the east of the country
The Pentagon has held up its practice of embedding
journalists with military units as proof of a new media-friendly policy. On 8 April, however, US military forces launched what appeared to be deliberate attacks on independent journalists covering the war, killing three and injuring four others
Standard PC file-compression programs can already be used to detect the language in which a piece of text is written. Now researchers have shown they can distinguish between classical music, jazz and rock — all without playing a single note. And audio fingerprinting can name a tune as it plays, promptly displaying the title and artist on an internet radio or mobile phone
Privacy International announced the results of its competition to find the worlds most pointless, intrusive and egregious security measures
Is your Internet service provider appropriating your intellectual property? The question was bought home to NZ IT columnist Bruce Simpson when he found the ISP he was using claimed rights over his intellectual property in its terms and conditions
The 70th anniversary wasn’t noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago — 27 February 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilised citizens all across the world
A Los Angeles police officer, Kelly Chrisman, used department computers to access confidential law enforcement records of celebrities and sold the information to tabloids
Legislators unanimously passed a bill that would let Washington residents sue illegal spammers in local courts, even if the e-mail is sent from other states
Researchers are developing a computer that helps people cope with the daily deluge of e-mail messages
Martin Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone, says that mobile carriers are making big mistakes in releasing Wi-Fi and other advanced data services
Some anti-spam vigilantes are giving spammers a taste of their own medicine, bombarding them with e-mail, signing them up for catalogues and products they did not order and flooding them with phone calls
Radio stations that are 100% digital can’t play certain copy-protected CDs because the copy-protection doesn’t allow them to rip the tracks on to their station’s system. Copy-protection is therefore directly responsible for the lack of airtime in this market by the artists who choose to copy-protect their CDs.
Microsoft gave out copies of .NET Visual Studio Pro to attendees of the Microsoft .NET Student Tour. Despite the discs saying unlicenced software — illegal without separate license from Microsoft
, the freebie didn’t contain any license document, and one guy decided to ask the MS conference rep about it — via Slashdot
Habeas is suing two internet marketers, saying that they’ve included Habeas’ haiku in their mail, thereby lowering their SpamAssassin score by 6 points, but allegedly violating the trademark
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry lashed out at top congressional Republicans after they assailed him for saying the United States, like Iraq, needs a regime change
An Oregon anti-terrorism bill would jail street-blocking protesters for at least 25 years in a thinly veiled effort to discourage anti-war demonstrations
The music industry fired another strong counterattack, suing four college students at three universities who run file-sharing sites
Google and Amazon have tied the knot in a deal designed to expand Google’s advertising presence and give Amazon users greater access to products not listed on the e-tailer’s site
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, England’s most senior family judge, said that homosexual partnerships should be recognised by law and transsexuals should have the right to marry in an assumed gender
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